Anna Bergqvist

Preferred contact: A.Bergqvist@mmu.ac.ukKey Words: Resident in: UK; Working in: UK; Area(s) of Interest in VBP:Research/philosophy; Research/particularism; Research/ethics; Research/aesthetics; Research/epistemology; Research/philosophy of mind and language; Narrative; Education;Related Area(s) of Interest: Medical humanities/art, photography, film, literature; Area(s) of healthcare expertise: Nursing/educationBrief Description of Work: I am a lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am also Director of the Particularism in Bioethics, Professional Ethics and MedicineNetwork. My main research areas are aesthetics and moral philosophy, and selected issues in mind and language. I am co-editor of Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology(Cambridge University Press, 2015) and editor of a planned volume on Evaluative Perception(with Robert Cowan). I have also published on particularism, thick evaluative concepts, semantic contextualism. I am interested in the intersection between metaethics, epistemology and philosophy of medicine, currently preparing a monograph on particularism and values-based practice.Read more: Work website: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/hpp/staff/profile/index.php?profile_id=44Academia.edu: https://mmu.academia.edu/AnnaBergqvistApplied Particularism Blog: https://appliedparticularism.wordpress.comPartner Links: Values-based Practice Theory Network